En réponse à John Tra <jtra00@yahoo.com>:
Pitié John, traduis un peu pour nous !!
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> Missionaries To Follow U.S. Forces In Iraq
>
> ?We realize we?re in an Arab country and we just can?t go out and
> preach? but ?as we work, God will always give us opportunities to tell
> others about his Son,? said Graham
>
>
> By Aymen Qenawi, Khaled Mamdouh IOL Staff
>
> CAIRO, March 28 (IslamOnlien.net) - Enhancing the conviction among some
> Arabs and Muslims that the U.S.-led war of aggression on Iraq is part of
> a new "crusade" campaign, the Beliefnet.com and Newhouse.com websites
> recently reported that two leading evangelical Christian missionary
> organizations were readying teams to enter Iraq to address "the
> spiritual needs" of the population.
>
> The Southern Baptist Convention, the U.S. largest Protestant
> denomination, and the Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse said workers
> were on the Iraqi-Jordanian borders ready to go in as soon as it is
> safe.
>
> A free lance translator told IslamOnline.net Friday, March 28, that he
> was approached by ?some organization? to forge up a team of translators
> to carry out a translation job from English into Arabic, adding that
> ?extracts I saw from the project were of a missionary nature, targeted
> to three countries; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq?.
>
> The 45-year-old translator was forced to quit a translation project he
> was working on after disclosing what he termed ?alarming data?.
>
> However, he did not even know ?who or what was behind the whole
> thing?.
>
> ?But, having failed to get me to recruit translators, I believe they
> will go ahead and make an ad on the net,? he said, adding that he ?was
> bent on disclosing their identity?.
>
> Observers believe such news consolidate the conviction shared by a large
> section of public opinion in the Arab and Islamic worlds that the Iraq
> was is a new ?crusade? campaign.
>
> However, a host of prominent Arab intellectuals, including renowned
> scholars such as Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi,
> refuse to regard the Iraqi war within such a context.
>
> They underline that their opposition to the U.S.-led war on Iraq, which
> they share with hundreds of millions of people across the globe of
> different religious and political affiliations, is based on rejection of
> injustice, respect of countries? sovereignty and abidance by
> international laws and conventions.
>
> Both Graham and the Southern Baptist Convention have been at the heart
> of controversial evangelical denunciations of Islam.
>
> The Southern Baptist Convention and Graham?s Samaritan's Purse claimed
> their priority will be to provide food, shelter and other needs to
> war-ravaged Iraqis, but asserting that when convenient they will also
> share their Christian faith with Iraqis, 98 of whom are Muslims.
>
> Franklin Graham, one of the U.S.?s most outspoken critics of Islam, told
> Beliefnet.com Wednesday, March 25, in a telephone interview from
> Samaritan?s Purse headquarters in Boone, N.C., ?We realize we?re in an
> Arab country and we just can?t go out and preach.?
>
> ?I believe as we work, God will always give us opportunities to tell
> others about his Son?.We are there to reach out to love them and to save
> them, and as a Christian I do this in the name of Jesus Christ.?
>
> In his interview with Beliefnet.com, he renewed allegations that "the
> Qur'an teaches violence, not peace..."
>
> Two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Graham called Islam "a very evil
> and wicked religion" during an interview on NBC television network.
>
> In his book published last year, "The Name," Graham wrote that "The God
> of Islam is not the God of the Christian faith." He went on to say that
> "the two are different as lightness and darkness."
>
> He admitted that his Samaritan?s Purse is in daily contact with Bush
> Administration agencies in Amman, Jordan, about its plans.
>
> Graham didn?t seem concerned that the public presence in Iraq of
> Samaritan?s Purse could prompt already-skeptical Muslims worldwide to
> view the war as a crusade against Islam.
>
> ?We don?t work for the U.S. Government, so we don?t get our permission
> from them.?
>
> "We go where we have the opportunity to meet needs," said Ken Isaacs,
> international director of projects for Samaritan's Purse, located in
> Boone, N.C.
>
> "We do not deny the name of Christ. We believe in sharing him in deed
> and in word. We'll be who we are."
>
> Muslims were outraged that Graham would be allowed to help with Iraq?s
> humanitarian effort.
>
> "Franklin Graham obviously thinks it is a war against Islam,? said
> Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic
> Relations.
>
> ?This is a guy who gave the invocation at President Bush?s inauguration
> and believes Islam is a wicked faith. And he's going to go into Iraq in
> the wake of an invading army and convert people to Christianity? Nothing
> good is coming of that.?
>
> A spokeswoman for the U.S. Agency for International Development said
> Wednesday night she could not comment.
>
> Meanwhile, officials from the Southern Baptist Convention are also
> planning a large ?relief? effort in Iraq once the war ends.
>
> ?This is not just a great opportunity to do humanitarian work but to
> share God's love,? said Sam Porter, state disaster relief director for
> the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
>
> ?We understand that the individual people of Iraq have done nothing to
> hurt us. We want to help them to have true freedom in Jesus Christ.?
>
> "Conversations about spiritual things will come about as people ask
> about our faith," said Mark Kelly, a spokesman for the Southern
> Baptists' International Mission Board Kelly, based in Richmond, Va.
>
> "It's not going to be like what you might see in other countries where
> there's a preaching service held outside clinics and things like that,"
> he claimed.
>
> "Evangelicals need to be sensitive to the circumstances of this country
> and its people," said Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental
> affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, based in
> Washington, D.C.
>
> "If we are perceived as opportunists we only hurt our cause. If this is
> seen as religious freedom for Iraq by way of gunboat diplomacy, is that
> helpful? I don't think so. If that's the perception, we lose."
>
> On the eve of the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis last year,
> the Rev. Jerry Vines, a former denomination president, told several
> thousand delegates that Islam's Allah is not the same as the God
> worshipped by Christians.
>
> "And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah, either. Jehovah's not going
> to turn you into a terrorist," Vines claimed.
>
> Widespread condemnation of those comments followed from other Protestant
> leaders as well as from Catholic and Jewish groups.
>
> U.S. President George Bush, an evangelical Christian himself, has close
> ties to both Franklin Graham, who gave a prayer at his inauguration, and
> Southern Baptists, who are among his most loyal political supporters.
>
>
> "Where determination exists, failure cannot dismatter the flag of
> succes"
> Mr Gboko (7th grade english teacher)
>
>
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